Regional and international cooperation in South America after Covid: challenges and opportunities post-pandemic

"This volume analyses South American regional and international cooperation during the COVID19 crisis started in 2020. Across thirteen chapters a collection of leading experts address how regional collaboration has developed, evolved, and recoiled. The chapters explore the state of regionalism at the pandemic surge and the challenges and opportunities this situation has opened for regional and international cooperation. Authors analyze the role of extra-regional powers and traditional regional leaders during the pandemic, identifying the extent to which regional cooperation has been possible across several policy agendas. They argue that fragmented visions of regionalism, ideological polarization, and weak leadership, has prevailed from before the pandemic which, accompanied by adverse interactions among major powers, has ensured that cooperation has remained bilateral rather than regional. Ultimately all these factors have created a complex scenario in which disintegration dynamics have emerged, darkening, even more, the South American regional panorama. Regional and International Cooperation in South America After Covid will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and policy specialists of regionalism and regional integration, Latin American studies, international relations and international political economy"--

Introduction : South American cooperation : regional and international challenges in the post-pandemic / Melisa Deciancio and Cintia Quiliconi -- Your regionalism and mine : the United States and South American cooperation in the global pandemic / Thaís Dória and Tom Long --- China's BRI extension to South America : challenges and opportunities for the regional order in the post-pandemic / Juliana Gonzalez Jauregui and Diana Tussie -- Regional and interregional relations between EU and South America : weathering the COVID-19 storm? / Andrea C. Bianculli and Maela Pascullo -- From regional leader to regional antagonist : Bolsonaro's anti-South American stance during COVID-19 pandemic / Feliciano de Sá Guimaraes -- The Venezuelan connection : the crisis of South American regionalism and Western Hemispheric order upheaval / Thomas Legler -- From UNASUR to PROSUR : institutional challenges to consolidate regional cooperation / Detlef Nolte -- Regional cooperation in health : challenges and setbacks in the pandemic / Pía Riggirozzi and Belen Herrero -- South America under the pendulum : bilateralism, intermestic security and the return of old practices / Fredy Rivera Vélez and Renato Rivera Rhon -- The rise and fall of IIRSA and the prospects for regional infrastructure integration in the post-pandemic / Giovanni Agostinis -- Social movements, care crisis and new opportunities for regional cooperation : the regional integration of female domestic paid workers in Latin America / Jorgelina Loza -- Social protests in the Andean region : towards new state forms / Carolina Cepeda Masmela -- Every man for himself! : the regional responses to the Venezuelan exodus during the COVID-19 pandemic / Adriana Montenegro Braz -- Conclusions : re-thinking regional cooperation for the post-pandemic / Melisa Deciancio and Cintia Quiliconi.